This movement was a great surprise to the Texans, but they were equal to the occasion.

Without a single word being spoken, every man along the line of the long tables turned his glasses down, and there was not a drop of wine taken that night.
Don't be like Uriah Heep, begging everybody's pardon for taking the liberty of being in the world.

There is nothing attractive in timidity, nothing lovable in fear.

Both are deformities and are repulsive.

Manly courage is dignified and graceful.